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Erasmus Mundus ECW – Bridging the gap
Bridging the gapExperiences at TU Dresden
Technische Universität Dresden, September 2010
Erasmus Mundus ECW – Bridging the gap
Dresden´s location
Dresden
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Technische Universität Dresden, September 2010
Erasmus Mundus ECW – Bridging the gap
The past
studying in Dresden for the past 180 years
• close connection between theory an praxis• a sound co-operation between the various academic fields
• after 1990 it was extended to include other subjects as well as the sciences
1828 1851 1871 1890 1961
founded asa technicaleducationalestablishment
Royal SaxonPolytechnical School ofHigher Education
Polytechnical Royal SaxonTechnical Schoolof HigherEducation(TH)
University of TechnologyDresden(TUD)
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Technische Universität Dresden, September 2010
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Statistics
4 science areas14 faculties35,000 students8,000 employees
Overv
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Technische Universität Dresden, September 2010
Erasmus Mundus ECW – Bridging the gap
students according to science areas
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2.471
4.474
16.453
12.554
NaturalSciences
Medicine
Engineering Sciences
Humanitiesand SocialSciences
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Statistics – foreign students
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3627 3614 35973567
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3700
WS2006/07 WS2007/08 WS2008/09 WS2009/10
Technische Universität Dresden, September 2010
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Country of origin – foreign students
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15981459
334157
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Europe Asia America Africa AUS/NZ
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The 5 largest groups of foreign students (WS 08/09)
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740
240 235 205 175
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China Russia Poland Vietnam Ukraine
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Promotion activities
- E-mail to a mailing list of TUD-scientists and to all students of TUD - separate information was sent to TUD-scientists that have projects with Asia- separate information was also sent to the East-Asia-Centre at TU Dresden, where TUD-students can attend supplementary chinese language and culture courses - Students interested in the mobility programme were counselled by the staff at the “Infocenter” at the International Office regarding the application procedure
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Selection of candidates
- application documents of doctoral / postdoctoral / staff applicants were sent to the faculties in order to receive feedback about the possibility to host the candidates in case of a successful application and about the quality of the application
- applications of undergraduate / master applications were checked at the International Office regarding their overall eligibility (especially knowledge of German / English language)
- meeting with the scientific coordinator for BTG at TUD and the contact persons for BTG in order to finalise the ranking
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Selection results
- 7 candidates from Technische Universität Dresden were selected for the BTG scholarships, 5 finally started their mobility periods
- 36 Asian candidates were selected to do studies / research at TU Dresden, 34 accepted the scholarship
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Counselling services
- for the Outgoings: help establishing the contact to the host institutions, preparation of the award contract, support with visa procedure, individual consultations
- for the Incomings: help establishing contacts to their host institute, in case of students help with the learning agreements, preparation of the award contract, the guest researchers received help in finding a place to live in Dresden, payment of first scholarship rate, support with visa procedures, individual consultations
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Experiences
- first scholarship holders that arrived in april have already returned home
- 5 students from Jilin University and 1 student from University Muhammadiyah Malang studied Computational Engineering successfully
- 1 student from Mongolian University of Science and Technology studied Civil Engineering and will in October start studies at the University in Karlsruhe, Germany as a scholarship holder of the Mongolian government
- 1 academic staff scholarship holder has spent 1 month as a guest researcher at the faculty of computer science
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Erasmus Mundus ECW – Bridging the gap
ExperiencesInformation by the coordinator to the partners sometimes not sufficiently clear:
- no definite list of selected candidates was sent to the partners- the word documents with the approved mobilities for each partner were difficult to understand
Roles of the partners should have been communicated more clearly: - to send letters of award to the selected candidates responsibility of the host institutions some candidates never received an official letter that they were selected
- some partners took very long to answer e-mails or didn’t answer at all – one TUD professor never received a reply by his intended host and therefore withdrew from the scholarship programme
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Experiences
Some procedures are too complicated and take too long:
- Award contract shall be printed 4x and signed by 4 parties
Problems with the Insurance Company:
- some scholarship holders didn’t receive their insurance certificate before their departure
Problems with study recognition:
- some selected undergraduate scholarship holders didn’t have to take compulsory courses for their studies any more, so the courses taken in Dresden are not necessary for their studies and will therefore not be recognised
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Thanks for the attention!